0 a medical operation that tightens loose skin to make the face look younger --
1 an improvement made to something to make it more modern or to change its appearance: --
There is no reason why young volunteers should not be used to help in the face-lift housing operations which so many of our declining and twilight areas badly need.
Many of them are still good pits, with good coal in them, but almost all of them need a face-lift.
It has been given a very impressive face-lift.
We are going to give you a face-lift.
The area desperately needs a face-lift if industry is to be attracted to it.
A newspaper sometimes needs a face-lift: new ideas and new policies pay off.
It is not just a face-lift; it means new armament, new-type detection apparatus and new, or possibly supplementary, power plants.
Ever since she became leader of her party she has had everything done to her and for her except a face-lift.
